On Our Radar: Out West, a Wage Gap as Big as the Plains

Women in Wyoming earn 67 cents on every dollar a man earns, according to this depressing piece on WSJ’s Real Time Economics blog. The best place for wage equality by gender is Washington, D.C., at 90 cents on the dollar, followed by Vermont, where women take home an average 87 cents to a man’s dollar. –Melissa Korn

Overlook the slightly boring name, because supply-chain management is a great route to a job, according to a story in today’s WSJ. Thanks to the highly complex nature of global commerce, these grads are in high demand. MBAs who took operations or supply-chain jobs report starting salaries of around $97,481, compared with $92,556 for all MBAs. — Lauren Weber

It’s hard to outright fire full-time workers in Japan, so companies are instead trying to force them out, sending them to ‘banishment rooms’ where they are told to perform mundane tasks and apply for new jobs online,’ according to this report in the Asahi Shimbun. –Nikki Waller

More grads with quantitative skills are choosing tech jobs over Wall Street, according to MarketWatch. Moody’s Analytics projects that high-tech firms will hire 450,000 new workers in the U.S. by the end of 2015, compared with 230,000 new workers for finance and insurance companies. –Rachel Emma Silverman

And finally…

The IRS is in the hot seat for many things right now. Among them is extravagant spending on staff conferences that included pricey team-building exercises. These activities are popular for corporate retreats, but do they achieve results? Not necessarily, says radio program Marketplace. — Lauren Weber

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